This study aims to analyze how, in the novels Eles eram muitos cavalos by Luiz Ruffato and Desonrados e outros contos by Arlindo Gonçalves, the literary device of landscape contributes to the emergence of a discourse about precariousness. If the landscape occupies, in these texts, a central place in thinking about social degradation, it is not limited to a nostalgic record of a world in ruins. In both novels, the device of landcape contibutes both to the triggering element of artistic creation as much as its failure. Like our fragmented perception of a degraded urban universe, here the landscape indicates our relationship with the alter territory.
Luiz Ruffato; Arlindo Gonçalves; landscape; precariousness; ruins